Abrogation of disease development in plants expressing animal antiapoptotic genes.

ABSTRACT: An emerging topic in plant biology is whether plants display analogous elements of mammalian programmed cell death during development and defense against pathogen attack. In many plant-pathogen interactions, plant cell death occurs in both susceptible and resistant host responses. For example, specific recognition responses in plants trigger formation of the hypersensitive response and activation of host defense mechanisms, resulting in restriction of pathogen growth and disease development. Several studies indicate that cell death during hypersensitive response involves activation of a plant-encoded pathway for cell death. Many susceptible interactions also result in host cell death, although it is not clear how or if the host participates in this response. We have generated transgenic to

SUBMITTER: Dickman MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC34460 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature